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North Division
Air Force
Boise St.
BYU
Colorado St.
Utah
Wyoming

South Division
Houston
New Mexico
San Diego St.
SMU
TCU
UNLV

If this is a BCS auto-bid conference, I have no problem with it. If it is not, then I think its an invitation to a disaster. Every school in the conference will be shaking their rears to every BCS conference that looks their way and that is destabilizing. Our travel costs would increase about $1 Million per year (will our revenue?). Lastly, we'd be in the red-eyed step child division, we get BYU and A/F at home only once every four years. That would mean two well attended games every four years in conference that we don't have now. As seen by TCU, Utah doesn't travel that well. We know that SDS, UNM and UNLV don't travel well and neither do we. Since we already play UH and TCU every year, we are in essence trading games with UTEP, Tulane, and Tulsa for games with SDS, UNM and UNLV. So, assuming a two sellouts, that generates $2 Million extra over a four year period. We spend $4 Million more on travel.

EastStang wrote:If this is a BCS auto-bid conference, I have no problem with it. If it is not, then I think its an invitation to a disaster. Every school in the conference will be shaking their rears to every BCS conference that looks their way and that is destabilizing. Our travel costs would increase about $1 Million per year (will our revenue?). Lastly, we'd be in the red-eyed step child division, we get BYU and A/F at home only once every four years. That would mean two well attended games every four years in conference that we don't have now. As seen by TCU, Utah doesn't travel that well. We know that SDS, UNM and UNLV don't travel well and neither do we. Since we already play UH and TCU every year, we are in essence trading games with UTEP, Tulane, and Tulsa for games with SDS, UNM and UNLV. So, assuming a two sellouts, that generates $2 Million extra over a four year period. We spend $4 Million more on travel.

good news is those are very winnable games and we would be in a BCS conference. If we win and put butts in the seats maybe we can make it work.

this might cut down on travel costs by a east-west geographic split...

West Division
Boise St.
BYU
Utah
Wyoming
San Diego St.
UNLV

East Division
Houston
New Mexico
Colorado St.
SMU
TCU
Air Force

Utah is gone....leave them out of any mtn. west discussion

NickSMU17 wrote:Utah is gone....leave them out of any mtn. west discussion

so does the pac-10 go to 11 teams? if not who is the 12th?

Utah is probably gone and SDSU may drop football so maybe you throw in UTEP and Colorado State for the west and Tulsa for the east.

PK wrote:Utah is probably gone and SDSU may drop football so maybe you throw in UTEP for the west and Tulsa for the east.

i like that even better for traveling to games and tulsa has had a good record over the past couple years (with the exception of ladt year)

PK wrote:Utah is probably gone and SDSU may drop football so maybe you throw in UTEP for the west and Tulsa for the east.

that makes it more manageable for us, if UTEP is one of our crossover games. Also makes sense to add UTEP in that you have one more Mountain time zone team. UTEP and New Mexico had a good basketball rivalry once upon a time.

New Mexico
UNLV
BYU
Air Force
Wyoming
Colorado State

SMU
TCU
Tulsa
Houston
Air Force
UTEP

RGV Pony wrote:

PK wrote:Utah is probably gone and SDSU may drop football so maybe you throw in UTEP for the west and Tulsa for the east.

that makes it more manageable for us, if UTEP is one of our crossover games. Also makes sense to add UTEP in that you have one more Mountain time zone team. UTEP and New Mexico had a good basketball rivalry once upon a time.

New Mexico
UNLV
BYU
Air Force
Wyoming
Colorado State

SMU
TCU
Tulsa
Houston
Air Force
UTEP

What happened to Boise St. Without them...never mind, you put Air Force in both divisions.

Utah and Colorado to Pac 10

If Utah leaves the MWC will not be a BCS conference. That would be one reason that the PAC-10 will feel pressure by others to add a MWC team to the fold (as well as CO). If CO says no, then they would hold their noses and look at BYU or NM. I suspect that they will not invite Utah unless CO is already on board. And if its not a BCS conference, I want no part of the MWC.

If the Pac-10 poaches Colorado from the Big-12 how will that play out in their potential negotiation of some kind of combination TV deal? Maybe they cant touch the Buffs and as a result don’t take Utah…

All is possible...just going off the best info I have...